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hey what is the longest its taken your device to build the database... I have about 7.5 gigs of mp3's on it about 320 bitrate but its taken like 8 hours on my sansa... is there something that I am doing wrong?

That's what the database uses, so the condition of these tags, including which ID3 standard was used, can have an affect on the database. It's still known to have problems with not handling unsupported tags gracefully, I believe.

at the home screen, everything appears to work perfectly, however I have not been able to listen to any music... Maybe I am not selecting the right music option. Even a few of the games I tested worked. Also, when I tried to choose a different theme it would not accept the theme. It remained on the default

the radio works just fine, and after I held down the select button, it is also charging it now. that's probably why its locking up. while reading through the manual it did not say much about the file structure of the music, does it need to be in a specific root folder? can it be in sub folders?

Seriously, the PluginMpegplayer page describes what's necessary of a video for it to be playable in Rockbox. But there are many, many better places on the internet where you can ask "How do I convert a DVD to mpeg2 320x240 video with 44khz MP3 audio" or whatever variant of that question is relevant for your player of choice

thats the one that i use i'm serious. if that wasn't true then i wouldn't be asking. it really doesn't work...please help if you know of a converter that does this? i'm searching google in another tab right now too.

Basically, put half the files on. If it works, switch halves. If it doesn't work, take half those files off and try again. Keep halving and trying (and swapping halves when necessary) until you're down to one bad file.

does the sansa e280 support most of the different themes? It says loaded but I am not seeing a difference. I have loaded the fonts, but I am not seeing font changes or color changes in the different themes.

Hi folks! I'm looking for some mortar to go with my new brick! :D Last night I decided to try out rockbox on my Sansa e250R (yep the Rhapsody edition) and now it's a cute black rock that can glow blue. The screen never turns on in any mode... Any help or ideas would be great

The last thing I did that really broke it completely was I copied a blank file called sansa.fmt to the device and it rebooted, wiped the device and then shut off. Now it comes on (the blue light anyway) but nothing comes up on the screen.

Oh! I think I may have left out a vital piece of information. When I first unlocked the firmware it said I have a "Vanilla" something... Does that mean my unit isn't really the R version? And maybe I should give the regular e250 rom a whirl?

I wish I could tell you. I unwrapped my little brick, and the first thing I did was try to install rockbox on it. When it booted up I do not remember seeing anything about Rhapsody, but the symbol is on the back of it.

Hey rockboxers - weird thing is happening - my computer has decided to not recognize my ipod is a USB device - I plug it in - it says 'FOUND: Rockbox Media Player' - then files it under the 'I DONNO WHAT THIS IS' yellow questionmark

krazykit, i held the rec button for a minute, nothing. I turned off the device (usb still plugged in) and it wouldn't turn back on. I unplugged the USB and then it would turn on, but still nothing on the screen. All while holding the rec button

Rockbox doesn't have a USB mode, and the recent work on adding one is incomplete, and seems to have in some cases (when plugged into windows) caused problems triggering an auto-reboot into disk mode, something that used to be a feature

curvin, what you SHOULD be able to do is put the device in manufacture mode, get the e200tool recover command ready (as root or sudo, remember!), hold the record button, then start the e200tool command. after e200tool finishes, you should be put into recovery mode immediately

all supported models are listed on the front page. The 2nd and 3rd generation Nanos do not share the common hardware of the iPods Rockbox does support - and on top of that their firmware is encrypted, and nobody @ Rockbox is working on that.

petur: The cf based iaudios should work equally well (minus the s/pdif capability, but plus the ability to record at 88.2kHz). Not sure how readily available they are (I only monitored M3 availability, but not M5 or X5)

Alright I'm just going to ask the question :P I have installed rockbox, everything is in .rockbox on the ipod drive and everything seems to be fine, except for one thing - the bootloader, no matter what I do the bootloader wont install, I have tried both the rockbox included version and the standalone patcher. One says the ipod is not found and to put it in discmode and the other just says not found

Ok, I found this http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/15/6th-gen-ipods-wont-work-with-linux-winamp/ All makes sense now. Oh well, I guess I'm going to play the waiting game. I'm one of them idiot FOSS advocates that cant stand having proprietry software on anything but my mobile, It would have been really nice to check this out but I don't think I'm going to sell it off and roll-back just to use it *grin*..

given that NONE of us in this channel to my knowledge work for such a company, nor have we ever approached one - you're completely on your own here. Asking the same question "what should I do now?" over and over isn't going to get you a better answer.

I am having really hard time to make my dad understand the source feature when recording stuff, he records voices and recordings from the radio all the time but just cannot get along with the idea of changing the source each time. Is there an easier way of doing them. Such as different menu items or such?

MrKeuner: when you enter the recording screen from the radio (via "recording" in the radio menu, the source seems to be set to radio automatically even though you can have it set differently in the global recording settings). I just checked because I haven't used it myself much yet...

btw LLorean: thanks for tipping me of in direction of i-frame only mpeg2.. works great if you require high quality video (and trade it for much lower compression) so i won't have to try to implement something like an mjpeg player myself ;)

hi everyone. I have a problem with my rockbox on Ipod 5.5. The playback of in particular higher bitrate files (FLAC) is "skippy", but not all the time. It often happens if rockbox continues playback on startup, and only seems to happen very rarely after it has been playing for a while. The reason seems to be a lot of hard disc activity (which continues for a couple of minutes even when I pause the current track, you can hear the disc working),

LambdaCalculus37: I just tried to change the theme. switched from slant to icatcher and it seems to work. might album arts be a problem? migght rockbox search all existing directories for such files (without the need to)?

Just recently my iriver h10 20GB player just died (bad battery works on charger) it had rockbox installed dual booting with original firmware. I am now going to get a new mp3 player and looking into the iaudio X5, does anyone know if the rockbox firmware for iaudio X5 uses more battery than the original firmware of X5? (because it did this with my H10)

if i make the X5 firmware into rockbox, can I still transfer playlist AND mp3s via UMS and than play them with the player even after they have been transfered via UMS? (because the original firmware of X5 has UMS mode)

Hi, after installing rockbox on my Sansa E280 I can't access the files on the Sansa any more. When I connect the Sansa via my cable and the USB port, the Windows PC nevertheless doesn't recognize the device. any idea what I could do now?